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A review by alemm
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel
4.0
Kang and Frenkel excel in framing this longform journalism in the context of the mid-to-late aughts and the 2016 election. It would be too easy to say that this is all information we knew, that Facebook is evil, etc. The truth is deeper, more insidious, as ugly as promised. This is as much a thorough indictment of Facebook as it is our antiquated antitrust laws and effective gerontocracy.
My main critique would be the treatment of others responsible for Facebook's atrocities, aside from Zuckerberg and Sandberg. It is clear that the pair don't stand on solid ground. The many secondary and tertiary people hold some responsibility and get off fairly easy in this book, sounding almost like heroes.
In reflecting on Isabel Allende's Soul of a Woman in conjunction with An Ugly Truth, it is clear that women alone are not the saviors of our society, that we need to push beyond European heteronormative standards of success.
My main critique would be the treatment of others responsible for Facebook's atrocities, aside from Zuckerberg and Sandberg. It is clear that the pair don't stand on solid ground. The many secondary and tertiary people hold some responsibility and get off fairly easy in this book, sounding almost like heroes.
In reflecting on Isabel Allende's Soul of a Woman in conjunction with An Ugly Truth, it is clear that women alone are not the saviors of our society, that we need to push beyond European heteronormative standards of success.